Canaletto (1697-1768) Isola nella laguna con una porta e una chiesa (An Island in the Lagoon with a Gateway and a Church) 1743–1744 Oil on canvas, 51.1 x 68.6 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Seemingly a painting of a…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Chaim Soutine 1916 Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm Private collection See also: • Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943)
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Chaim Soutine 1918 Oil on canvas, 91.7 x 59.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Born in 1884 to an aristocratic family in Livorno, Italy, Amedeo Modigliani settled in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris in 1906 and began…
Martini, Simone (c.1284-1344) San Pietro (St. Peter) s.d. Tempera and gold on panel, 58 x 38.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection As is required by an iconographic tradition without exceptions, St. Peter is represented as an old man holding…
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Giovane cavaliere in un paesaggio (Young Knight in a Landscape) c.1505 Oil on canvas, 218.5 x 151.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The canvas, signed and dated by Carpaccio on a cartellino to the right of the figure, was…
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni 1489–1490 Mixed media on panel, 77 x 49 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This superb panel is a fine example of fifteenth-century Florentine portraiture. Artists of the time followed classical dictates: body proportions were idealised while…
(1468–1488) Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni Giovanna degli Albizzi in Art: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Venere e le tre Grazie offrono doni c.1483–1485 Musée du Louvre, Paris Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni 1489–1490 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Born December 18…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Cristo e la Samaritana (Christ and the Samaritan Woman) 1310–1311 Tempera and gold on panel, 43.5 x 46 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This painting was part of the predella (the bottom tier) of the Maestà altarpiece made for…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Perseo e Andromeda (Perseus and Andromeda) 1554–1556 Oil on canvas, 183.3 x 199.3 cm Wallace Collection, London
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Madonna col Bambino e san Giovannino (The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist) c.1517–1519 Oil on panel, 106.5 x 81.3 cm Wallace Collection, London